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The Mini Hotel -Birmingham City-FREE BREAKFAST

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Basic Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
Basic Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
Basic Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
Basic Room | Bathroom | Shower, free toiletries, towels
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Reviews

5.8 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Laundry
  • Breakfast included
  • Free WiFi

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211 Harborne Ln, Birmingham, England, B29 6SS
  • University of Birmingham
    ‪14 min walk‬
  • Cadbury World
    ‪4 min drive‬
  • Utilita Arena Birmingham
    ‪7 min drive‬
  • Birmingham (BHX)
    ‪40 min drive‬

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Basic Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Basic Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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About this property

The Mini Hotel -Birmingham City-FREE BREAKFAST

3-star hotel in Selly Oak
Dry cleaning and free breakfast are available at this smoke-free hotel. Housekeeping is available on request.
The Mini Hotel -Birmingham City-FREE BREAKFAST offers 7 accommodations with complimentary toiletries. 30-inch Smart televisions come with satellite channels.

Bathrooms include showers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Irons/ironing boards, change of towels, and change of bedsheets can be requested. Housekeeping is provided on request.

Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning.

The Mini Hotel -Birmingham City-FREE BREAKFAST is a smoke-free property.

A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free offsite parking
  • Street parking available

Food and drink

  • Free buffet breakfast available daily 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Conveniences

  • Luggage storage
  • Virtual front desk

Guest services

  • Change of bedsheets (on request)
  • Change of towels on request
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (on request)

Accessibility

  • No elevator

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 30-inch smart TV with digital channels

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle

More

  • Desk
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board on request

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Minimum check-in age: 15

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
Guests will receive an email 24 hours before arrival with check-in instructions and lockbox information
A virtual front desk provides assistance to guests

Access methods

Lockbox

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and debit cards; cash is not accepted

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

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The Mini Hotel -Birmingham City-FREE BREAKFAST Reviews

Reviews

5.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 9 out of 44 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 9 out of 44 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 7 out of 44 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 5 out of 44 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 14 out of 44 reviews

7.4/10

Cleanliness

5.6/10

Staff & service

5.8/10

Amenities

6.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

sean

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Second time here had a good sleep, breakfast was okay but could do with changing the sausages there not the best.
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

6/10 Okay

John

Business traveler
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

sean

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Tidy rooms had a good breakfast thank you for a nice stay.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The bed is very poor because the mattress is too old, need update. The bed lien is damaged and it have holes so need new bed lien and wash regularly. They gave me wrong key code by email from Hotels.com. The door code is not good as it is complicate as you gave me the wrong code for the door. If I am alone, it will be difficult to access the code. I had been sent message and no reply at all. The breakfast is not very nice. I smelt lot of smoking in the my bedroom No.2 which was not good as it affect my health and not enough sleep through my weekend. Staffs are not friendly and unwelcome. Why do you hide from the curtains and privacy. The lights were flickering on the stairs. I am very disappointed. I won’t return to the hotel next time. Please update ALL the rooms. I will report to the hotel inspector to check your hotel.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice cosy room, felt safe .Can be a bit noisy with other guests in other rooms.Also the bathroom noises from the other rooms.Otherwiswe great value for money .
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2025

2/10 Terrible

Anita

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

4/10 Poor

RUPERT

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Disappointing

Very small room . The door handle came offf. The heating wasnt on in room.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

2/10 Terrible

Warren

Selly oak poor

Very poor heater didn’t work it’s not easy to get into bed the bed is slotted into space so u only can get in from front heater didn’t work no1 to meet u breakfast is poor and cold if u not down my 8 wouldn’t go there again won’t offered no money off for the heating not working lots of rubbish outside house on busy main road in selly oak
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Brutally Honest: Avoid at all costs

My stay was an absolute nightmare. The bed was beyond awful—cheap Amazon frames that creaked loudly with every tiny movement and a mattress so thin and worn that I could feel every single spring stabbing into my back. It felt like sleeping on a pile of scrap metal. The so-called “free buffet breakfast” was a complete insult: a sad bowl with a few slices of bread, a few pale, shrivelled sausages that looked barely cooked, and a bowl of baked beans that were lukewarm at best. Just the bare minimum of effort. And let’s not forget the “juice,” which was just watery squash that tasted like disappointment. They provided exactly two teabags no matter how long you stayed, and the teacups were practically shot glasses, forcing me to buy my own mug just to have a decent cup of tea. There was no Wi-Fi, despite it being advertised, and every attempt to contact the hotel was completely ignored. No matter how many times I reached out through Hotels.com or direct messages, I got nothing but silence. Same goes for “washing facilities” none to be seen. The walls were so thin you could hear everything—other guests stomping around, slamming doors, talking loudly at all hours with no regard for anyone else. This wasn’t a hotel, it was a glorified, poorly managed HMO with a price tag that made the experience even more insulting. Every corner was cut, every detail neglected. It was an absolute waste of money. Avoid this place like the plague.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025

4/10 Poor

Stephen

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Terrible

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

6/10 Okay

David

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hungry in Selly Oaks.

Failed to provide breakfast on Saturday. Apparently I was the only person in hotel! Otherwise excelent.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Joel

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2024

2/10 Terrible

David

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Does not meet the described standard. No car park. Limited breakfast. Poorly maintained room. Damaged linen.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

8/10 Good

Debbie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The thing about this hotel is that check in and check out is done by email, and picking up a code to get your own key. There is no reception and so no service as such. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, just took some getting used to. I would have appreciated slightly larger cups in the room and a coffee sachet as well as tea.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2024

6/10 Okay

Afnan

Business traveler
Liked: Amenities
Convenient location for me and good value for money
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2024

2/10 Terrible

simran

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Rubbish stay

Rubbish stay avoid at all costs not worth wasting your money
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Shaun

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

8/10 Good

Vaishali Sanjay

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Close to UOB, Small rooms in a house. Narrow stairs to climb 2 floors with luggage. No Hotel Board, no attendant, was struggling to locate the hotel and check in. No cleaning stayed there for three days. No garbage pickup. No room tea/coffee fill up. Just basic stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2024

4/10 Poor

James

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Very, very poor customer service

Don't trust the information supplied when booking this property. THEY DO NOT CONTACT YOU 24 HOURS BEFORE TO PROVIDE CHECK IN INFORMATION. I chased them by phone less than an hour prior to check in advising I was arriving shortly advising they hadn't sent check in information. They didn't return my call. I then text them stating I hadn't received check in information. I received a curt reply with no apology stating they don't supply information prior to check in and that was the fault of the booking agent. No apology for this was supplied despite this being an issue between the property and Hotels.com. They actually had the audacity to advise me to take this up with Hotels.com rather than dealing with this themselves and further inconveniencing other customers. The walls are paper thin and when someone has a shower or flushes the toilet in their respective rooms it sounds like you are in there with them. The breakfast was decent but limited. For a very, very basic stay with absolutely zero customer service this accommodation is nothing more than okay, if you expect decent customer service and politeness don't stay here.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024

2/10 Terrible

Haidar

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2024

2/10 Terrible

Tina

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is the first and only time I have left a "hotel" without staying in a non-refundable. It did not feel safe here. It's not a hotel, but an old house on a busy road. No soundproofing and floorboards creaking loudly above me. Other guests kept leaving front door unlocked so anyone could get in and there are no staff or reception. I sent a message with a general question to the the hotel and never heard back. My expedia confirmation said I would receive my check in instructions 24 ahead... had a text message less than 1 hour ahead. Other guests kept asking me how to get in, was confusing. There was not one bit of signage to even say it was a hotel! I was so confused I walked past it twice! Once I got to my room in the clustraphobic house, it was filthy, disgraceful. The bed was messy all the covers kicked off with an a pizza box, food and old crumbs and dirt all over the sheets and the bed had OLD DIRTY TOE NAILS ACROSS THE BEDSHEETS. Room filled with rubbish and old takeaway, dirty and unclean. I have never seen anything like it. Kept trying numbers until I got hold of them, by this point I was really upset. They said they gave me the wrong room... and then gave me the wrong code for the next room! Luckily I got them to stay on the phone with me until was in new room. This was clean, but as I said it was noisy, no soundproofing, doors are heavy and slam and unlocked front door and no staff made me feel unsafe. It was on a busy main raod. I got the hell outta there!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Lynsey

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We had the top room it was nice and clean as it was warm we had to open the roof windows and the traffic noise was quite bad till late on. Could have had a fan in the room to combat this. The outside of the property lets it down it’s hard to locate as no sign. The rest of the terraces look very run down and not very inviting. The room itself was small but adequate for what we needed. If you want a cheap place to sleep for the night then you couldn’t go wrong here.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort

Poor experience & mould on bread

Check in process is fine and simple - lock box on wall code sent via sms. Hotels.com says parking available - but you need to hunt for a parking space in a near by street Room very clean and tidy but the bed makes a noise everytime you move. I very much doubt the large gap under the door to the room would be fire safety regulations. There is a strange smell in the bathroom Towels were wet when we arrived and were not able to use them, lucky enough they never made the bed too wet.(as thats where they were) Doesn't matter whether the window is open or closed you can hear every single car go past. The front door slams shut, our room was right next to it, so i was awake since people started leaving around 630am! I could hear every single foot step from the people in the room above. I could also hear their toilet flush and at one point it sounded like a bucket of water being tipped on the floor, I'm assuming this was the shower. I could even here the buttons from the lock boxes being clicked when people return the keys. Breakfast this morning started off ok, until I found mould on a piece of my sons bread. Only member of staff apologised and kept telling me it was new bread, clearly it isn't that new if there was mould on it. Juice dispenser was leaking into a bucket (concerned it gets put back in the dispenser Contacted manager about issues, no response from message and phone number doesnt ring.
Doubt this meets fire safety regulations
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Tony

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Breakfast wasn't brilliant as it was only slightly warm. Food didn't taste great
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Mabelle

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I tried messaging the property for check in information and did not get a response via Expedia. The only option was to call the property and it was difficult for me as I only have a data eSIM and had to rely on my friends to call on my behalf. It took ages for someone to pick up and it has been a stressful and frustrating process. Room was small but decent for the price. Breakfast was supposed to be included but the door to breakfast room was locked even though it said “open from 8-9am”. No code was provided for unlocking the door to breakfast and nobody was around to provide any assistance. Will not recommend this to anyone
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024